On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote:
> > > Am 22.01.2018 um 11:01 schrieb Geertjan Wielenga: > >> I am not sure what the point is of spending time on putting rat exclusions >> together if they’re simply going to be ignored when it comes to IPMC >> members evaluating a release. Yes, we can of course discuss those rat >> exclusions. No, they cannot simply be ignored and we cannot be confronted >> with a very long list of issues in the IPMC vote thread primarily based on >> the fact that our rat exclusions have been ignored. >> > > sorry for jumping in here, I only know half what those files are about, so > I might be wrong. It seemed to me those are java files, that are test > files. If you make an IDE for a language, you will want tests, that > basically consist of code and are test data. And since they are test data, > they have been excluded. Since they are also code, this produces an edge > case conflict. > > Now in Groovy we have also test data as code, but our tests have the test > data either embedded and sue them directly from in-memory or will write > them to disk or even produce them. Those tests then of course have the > right header and do not need to be excluded. Is that no way forward for > NetBeans? > We have such tests as well, of course. But some tests use test data that is in separate files in the repository, and it would seem to me to be a wasted effort to convert thousands of existing tests to a different approach without a good technical reason. Jan > > bye Jochen > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
